Rather than an "iointr" routine that decomposes a vector into an
IRQ, we maintain a vector table directly, hooking up each "iointr"
routine at the correct vector. This also allows us to hook device
interrupts up to specific vectors (c.f. Jensen).
We can shave even more cycles off, here, and I will, but it requires
some changes to the alpha_shared_intr stuff.
work-around. It's required in order for the DEC Multia (a very
brain-damaged little machine) to work properly.
Submitted by Juergen Weiss <weiss@uni-mainz.de>, addresses
port-alpha/11202.
less like an Intel SIO except that the ELCR registers are accessed differently
than on the Intel SIO.
XXX This code needs to be split up into bridge front-end and PIC back-end
XXX pieces.
This can be disabled (to save a bit of space) with the NO_KERNEL_RCSIDS
options, which is present but commented out in the ALPHA config file.
In ELF-format kernels, these strings are present in the kernel binary but
are not loaded into memory. (In ECOFF-format kernels, there's no easy way
to keep them from being loaded, so they _are_ loaded into memory.)
>Update for present reality (function names), clean up a bit (printfs,
>"panic: foo XXX"), and fix a couple of printf format specified bugs
>(which were normally #if 0'd out). Inspired by Multia/UDB support
>changes sent by Matt Thomas.
and:
>changes from Matt Thomas so that the Multia/UDB can attach its
>'com' interrupts, cleaned up some. Basically: if sharing type of
>new interrupt is different than what the hardware is currently set up
>for (e.g. requesting edge-triggered and the hardware is set up by
>the PROM for level triggered) and there are no interrupt handlers on
>that line already, warn about it and use the hardware type that the
>line was already set for (to avoid making the console blow up on
>reboot). If same circumstances but there is already a handler, panic
>as before.
Support for AXPpci CPUs,
Support for AlphaStation 600 CPUs,
new boot block structure, which requires an 'installboot'
program and works a lot like the NetBSD/sparc boot blocks.